by Randy Scholfield
With grim news of changing climate—scientists say the impacts are visible everywhere now—and an administration with its head resolutely in the sand, things can look pretty discouraging for people who care about rivers.
It’s easy to get discouraged and wonder, What can one person... [ READ MORE... ]

A Willowemoc creek green drake.
By Jerry Schoen
We have seen a lot on the TU blog and elsewhere about how climate change is affecting fish and their cold-water habitats, but one under-appreciated concern is that climate change also disrupts the life cycles of aquatic insects. This, in turn, might... [ READ MORE... ]

A technician uses an antenna and radio receiver to locate fish in Milk Creek.
By Brian Hodge
As every TU member knows, salmon and trout depend on a steady supply of cool or cold water to survive. Accordingly, steam temperature serves as a relatively good index or predictor of salmonid habitat.... [ READ MORE... ]

by Randy Scholfield
Conservation work can be a long, hard slog, so it’s important to celebrate the successes when they come—and this is big: Colorado TU’s years of hard work and negotiations paid off recently with a U.S. Forest Service settlement on Long Draw Reservoir that will launch a major... [ READ MORE... ]

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Whenever I'm on the road on my way to visit a beautiful natural place to camp and/or fish, I usually play some soothing music to get me in the mood. One of the songs on my playlist is "The Lucky One", by Allison Krauss. I feel like that guy in the song sometimes because, well, I've been lucky,... [ READ MORE... ]

By Noel Gollehon
Two scientific studies published this month captured some pretty dramatic details of how climate change is affecting our rivers, lakes and streams. A recent article in Nature Geoscience described the first known case of river piracy due to climate change. In this case, the climate... [ READ MORE... ]

Native fish like the Gila trout pictured here can use support in political circles as much as in their rivers. Greg McReynolds/Trout Unlimited
By Randy Scholfield
Why don’t people care more about conservation and trout? And what can we do to change it?
That was the pressing topic that kept coming... [ READ MORE... ]

Gila trout from Willow Creek, Gila National Forest.
by Randy Scholfield
(All photos by Josh Duplechian)
Some trout are, in the long arc of time, relative newcomers to the interior West. Take brown trout and rainbows—they’re been here for an eyeblink of history. Then there are trout that speak to... [ READ MORE... ]

Photo by The Missoulian
Even though the northwest part of Montana got a lot of snow this year it's melting off early, which may still pose a threat to summer flows and fishing. Guides in Montana are communicating to ensure the fishing community understands that, just because the area has had a good... [ READ MORE... ]

By Sam Davidson
I came across a video recently, on sockeye salmon migrating to the spawn in the Lake Iliamna area in Alaska. The productivity of this region for salmon is nothing short of amazing—and makes the proposed Pebble Mine, looming like the guillotine over the entire Bristol Bay ecosystem,... [ READ MORE... ]